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39
PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
Had the population of this Sub-district undergone no
increase whatever since the last annual report was rendered,
the proportion of deaths to such population would have
still indicated a very favourable condition of the public
health.
The natural increase of the population, as shown by the
excess of births over deaths was, in 1868, greater than in
the preceding year by 66, having reached 145. What the
exact increase may have been through immigration, or the
influx of new residents, it is most difficult to determine,
and until the census of 1871 has been taken, the death rate
of this rapidly increasing suburb could only be assumed on
very imperfect and unreliable data. The Surveyor of the
Sub-district has, however, furnished for this report a return
of 149 as the number of houses erected during the past
year. Assuming, then, that two-thirds of these new
dwellings, or say 100, had become inhabited within the
year, it will be evident that, allowing 5.75 inmates to each
house, which was the estimate at the last census, the
increase of the population by immigration will have been